Anti-Incumbency, MLAs’ Performance Denting Party BJP Panaji: With assembly elections hardly six months away, the state unit of BJP has kicked off its pre-poll exercise by conducting an internal winnability survey of all the 40 constituencies. The preliminary survey has indicated that 50% of the 20 seats in North Goa are vulnerable.The saffron party, which…
Mohammedan Sporting finished at the bottom in ISL with 3 points from 13 matches Panaji: Mohammedan Sporting Club have asked the All India Football Federation (AIFF) to consider them as an option in the top tier of Indian football “should an opportunity or vacancy arise within the league structure.”Mohammedan Sporting finished at the bottom of…
Panaji: A Congress delegation met the director general of police (DGP) on Monday to demand a fair, transparent, and time-bound investigation into the Maina-Curtorim assault of local youth, as well as the recent instance of a youth suicide in Mapusa.The delegation urged the police to ensure strict action against all those responsible for the alleged…
Panaji: The enforcement directorate (ED) on Sunday provisionally attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 1,023.9 crore of the AVS Group, including assets located in Singapore, in connection with illegal iron ore mining case.ED investigation revealed that the AVS Group, part of the Salgaocar Group and associates, operated 10 mining leases during 2007–12 and generated…
Panaji: Catherine Fernandes remembers carrying a stone on her head as a ten-year-old girl, praying for rain. It was an old village ritual, the kind passed down without explanation, simply understood to work. Now 76 and living in Calangute, her knees no longer allow her to make that particular offering to St Anthony. But she…
Anxious parents outside the NEET examination centre at Cujira on Sunday Panaji: A total of 4,371 students appeared for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) at 12 centres across Goa on Sunday. The examination was largely incident-free, though a handful of students at two centres alleged they were denied entry to the exam halls.Heavy…
Panaji: On the morning of one of the most important examinations of her life, 18-year-old Savita Lamani woke before dawn, completed her household chores, helped her mother at home, and then set out through the monsoon rain to appear for the highly competitive medical entrance examination, NEET, on Sunday.Her elder sister, who once shared the…
Bicholim: The agitation against a mega housing project in Karapur entered its 78th day on Sunday, with villagers reiterating that they will continue their protest until the project is scrapped. Residents allege that the project violates environmental norms.Under the banner Karapur Gramastha Ekvoticho Aawaz, villagers have been staging a sit-in protest near the Shri Shantadurga…
Keri: Due to the relentless heat caused by weak monsoon activity, the water resources department (WRD) established a support dam just 1km away from the main masonry dam of Anjunem in Keri. This was to supply irrigation water to farmers. However, the WRD encountered an unexpected problem– a large number of picnickers visiting the site…
Calangute: The Calangute panchayat on Sunday held a special gram sabha to discuss a proposal to carry out a scientific study of the carrying capacity of the village.After repeated demands from the locals, sarpanch Joseph Sequeira said the panchayat had invited The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), a New Delhi-based organisation, to give a proposal…
